Episode 336: Horror Stories from Outer Space
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Space is often imagined as a silent, empty expanse, but that emptiness is precisely what makes it so terrifying. It is a place where distance is absolute, where help is impossible, and where even the smallest mistake means certain death. Beyond the fragile shell of a spacecraft lies a vacuum that will not just kill you, but erase you… cold, indifferent, and endless.
Stranger still is what we don’t understand: the possibility of unseen phenomena, ancient forces, or vast cosmic entities moving through the dark, unnoticed. In space, humanity is not just vulnerable: it is insignificant, drifting in a universe that neither knows nor cares that we exist.
Today’s first phenomenal offering is the classic ‘The Ghost World’, an old-school work by the wonderful Sewell Peaslee Wright, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30452/30452-h/30452-h.htm#The_Ghost_World
Today’s second tale of terror is the classic ‘The Man from 2071’, an old-school work by the wonderful Sewell Peaslee Wright, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/31893/pg31893-images.html#The_Man_From_2071
Today’s final tale of the macabre is the classic ‘The Ray of Madness’, an old-school work by the wonderful Captain S. P. Meek, freely available in the public domain and read here under the conditions of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29390/pg29390-images.html#The_Ray_of_Madness